Lunch
Twelve Days of Carnivore!
Carnivoor
(Vic)
#301
Fangs
#302
yes I understand but the āchallengeā is for new carnivores and since some older ones like us it is an easier situation, we all just challenge ourselves to do our best to hold plan at all times and with the more newer zc people, they can evaluate their new healthy benefits 
I so get what ya said it being normal, it is for me too cause now I truly canāt go backwardsā¦I donāt wanna LOL
oh yum, I can imagine itā¦hope you donāt have more trouble with pics, you got some good ones happening!!
and that is the best ending to any meal right? 
Fangs
#303
So I researched up the Twelves Days of Christmas and got 2 meaningsā¦one is it starts Dec 25 and goes to Jan. 5. Known as Twelvetide, and ending on Jan. 5 as Epiphany Eve. The other is it starts Dec 13 and runs to Dec 25 being a 12 day countdown. Very interesting.
food yesterday was
1 lb NY strip steak
1 lb of jumbo shrimp
can of tuna
tin of sardines
some leftover chicken
few slices salami
Ate kinda early and then carnivore nibbled the rest of the evening.
All good in my zc world. Just doing my thing No complaints or wandering thoughts about my eating plan. All just cruising along!
FrankoBear
#304
On the FIRST day of Carnivormas
My true love fed to me
A rib eye steak
And 7 fat prawns
Fangs
#305
yum, you and me, surf and turf people 
I saw this big bag of frozen Black Tiger Prawns and they were absolute monstersā¦omgosh I wanted it so bad but it was $22.99 for the bag and I just didnāt have it in me to pay that much for them but man, they are on my mind big time. So big! So meaty. Now I want the darn things again 
ughā¦maybe a Karen Christmas present to herself 
VirginiaEdie
(Edith)
#306
My first batch of homemade soap: beef tallow, coconut oil, and olive oil. I have to wait 4-6 weeks for it to cure before we try it.
Itās fun to make. Iām a little worried we are going to get overrun with soap as I try different recipes. 
Ketodaisy
(Daisy)
#309
I have a bit more than trepidationā¦ they will have to literally force inject me because there is zero chance of me willingly getting itā¦
Shinita
#311
Alvaro gets his vaccination in the hospital, I go with him except in the end when I do some shopping. I always enjoyed pork chuck so I buy some. And salmon is on sale and Alvaro wanted and I planned it anyway. More variety.
I reached the point where I canāt avoid carnivore(-ish) anymore, my woe is a chaos without it, I donāt know why I canāt set and respect rules normally but carni is so much easier and now I need as low-carb as possible anyway. Itās just this meat aversion (and I donāt really want dairy or eggs either) but I will try a bit harder. I eat about 1 pound meat per week lately, barely anything and very much enjoy that itās not more, I waited patiently to pass this feeling but now I will just make a meaty dish and eggy ones too and eat as much as possible. It canāt be hard for the hungry me. I never wait for any hunger as usual (I plan but I am just not that type who can do it except if I focus on it extremely much but itās tiring) and it doesnāt help. It may sound so whiny and it isnāt, I am sure I can change things now, I had my little break from meat and want to feel better. So I am looking forward to this week.
I never had this problem before but now we are here. In December. Bad timing.
Carnivoor
(Vic)
#312
And so I fail the 12 day of carnivore challenge. 
Lunch:
Grounded pork and beef mix, egg, cheese and mushroom.
Fangs
#313
and in truth what did those mushrooms give ya that was so important 
I always think of my food like that, what would XYZ put in it truly mean to me and the answer is usually nothing
LOL just joking 
looks darn delish tho!
Fangs
#314
food yesterday was
taylor ham slices
2 cheeseburger patties
2.5 chicken breasts
can of tuna
not good at all for me, woke up starving. Only like 8:30am here but in just a bit I am frying up a 1 lb. ribeye steak and ripping into that puppy!
yea, me not shy 
vacation put me off my normal menu with starting my day with a big old steakā¦back to extreme basics for this olā gal right now.
All going very well on plan. Ticking off Dec in good form.
VirginiaEdie
(Edith)
#316
If you are only eating a pound ( 1/2 kilo approx) of meat per week, what else are you eating?
Shinita
#317
I ate plants, of course. I canāt do carni with this little meat, theoretically possible but not nice so I fall off the wagon very quickly. I donāt remember the beginning of my December, I know it wasnāt as bad as my latest days but I stopped carnivore very early after my November was done. But now I am back, finally.
But I can do carnivore with surprisingly little meat. Until very recently, I ate little meat on my short but several carnivore periods for multiple reasons. Often less than what I actually wished. I remember when I wished for 0.25 pounds a day but I was much lower, that was somewhat stressful. The stubborn me can still do it, I eat eggs and dairy and well-chosen flavorful meat can keep my menu from being super boring (no matter how versatile eggs are, they get boring, even with dairy). Itās doable, many eggs a day, lots of various dairy, little but nice meat. But itās not good enough. November was cool (especially the second part), I just couldnāt handle all that meat afterwards. Maybe itās not the amount of meat or not only that but eating the same (not my absolute fav though nice) meats for 11 days while not having appetite - without the usual amount of eggs. Who knows? It doesnāt matter, I keep changing and trying to find my sweet spot.
So I did my shopping. No salmon, people bought it all. I run out of smoked pork and I need variety so I bought bacon (not carnivore, I never will buy it again but I am desperate at this point. very tiny sugar but I hate added sugar in my meat products. in everything but especially in my meat products where they donāt do anything even remotely positive, in the contrary. but itās tiny so I am not sure I feel it). Herring (in tomato sauce but itās that or sunflower oil, itās for emergencies when I am bored with everything else and I eat that or something very carby). Snack sausage. Pork chuck. Various cheeses.
I need every help I can getā¦ We start to run out of eggs. But I am very very very stubborn and when I will be willing to walk 2 hours, I will have eggs again. I need sunshine for that (we had some today!).
I had a tiny pre-meal after 3pm and a coffee for my headache (I am an optimist. I took a pill later). Well, two. The supermarket was a crowdy nuthouse (and no salmonā¦ 
), the bus station was extremely noisyā¦ Alvaro got flu vaccine, bought another and ordered anotherā¦ He handled today well but we had someone to help to get to the bus. And back from it too.
There are fish sales nearby 
Some fattier, nicer or exciting (as we never tried itā¦ northern pike, it seems its the English name) fish for the same price as salmon on saleā¦ Nope. Some more common, less perfect fish for very cheap (a fragment of the supermarket price)ā¦ I donāt know, I am not into it. I want a fish soup at some point but I can get way better meat with that money. Fish is just some light thing and I am choosy, I like only the fatty, expensive ones. And I still would rather eat pork chuckā¦
Whatever, itās nice to know there is such an option. Many people like fish for Christmas so there are such sales before.
I roast the pork chuck soon, letās see if my annoying meat aversion covers my favorite. Hopefully not. I donāt feel any desire towards it but having it in front of me has better chances.
I expect this problem disappear in the near future. Itās not fun.
I donāt know if I mentioned it as I had an abandoned comment too but I had 0.64 pounds meat a day on November (the off days donāt count). And it was raised in the beginning of December while I barely had eggs. The latter didnāt work, November was nice but who knows what would happen longer term. We will see. January is the perfect carnivore month for me (and I have good chances until June), even if I add some tiny amount of plants here and there or even if I go low-carb for single days, I can draw some conclusions (then I go and change, of course so they wonāt be valid anymore, life is like that). November wasnāt proper enough for that and my meat was mostly smoked pork in the first 2 weeks (with some liver). January is bound to be much better. We will have a whole smallish piglet too from the pig farm! How awesome is that? I have no idea as I never had that before but I expect something wonderful. I will eat meat carefully in December to properly appreciate the arrival of our piglet.
Mushrooms give fun, I guess, variety. And cause zero problems to me. Even so, I made only 2 small mushroom stews in the last several weeks when I collected a huge amount of mushroom. And I didnāt eat them only myself. I wait patiently for the desire towards them to arrive, this far I am perfectly happy with picking and canning them (and making lots of photos, of course). I only used stew to add variety but I always had to stop eating after a few bitesā¦ Itās just like the vegetables. I barely ate any vegetables in the last year (and only one vegetable dish was tempting) so I donāt expect them to have a comeback. One can never know, though.
Karen18
(Karen)
#319
@polly you maybe right and I may be wrong. I thought it was 5/6 people in the house at one time. It wonāt effect me much as u am working Xmas day so will be around loads of peeps and boxing day just spending it with my daughter and her hubby. I feel for all those who will miss out on seeing their family.
Carnivoor
(Vic)
#320
